{"id":4038574,"url":"https://alion.io/job/monks-strategist-3","title":"Strategist","company":{"id":635,"name":"Monks","domain":"monks.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/monks","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":78,"open_postings":71,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.887,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":37,"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"}},"role":"Marketing","role_family":"Marketing","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Portland, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":85000,"max":95000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":95000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"LinkedIn","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T16:56:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T21:29:36Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Please note that we will never request payment or bank account information at any stage of the recruitment process. As we continue to grow our teams, we urge you to be cautious of fraudulent job postings or recruitment activities that misuse our company name and information. Please protect your personal information during any recruitment process. While Monks may contact potential candidates via LinkedIn, all applications must be submitted through our official website (monks.com/careers).\nWe’re looking for a Digital Strategist to help develop digital strategies and experiences for a global sports brand. This role combines research, insights, strategic thinking, and hands-on problem solving to help teams understand what people need, identify meaningful opportunities, and translate those opportunities into clear strategic direction across a fast-moving global brand ecosystem.\nYou’ll work closely with the Digital Strategy Director and multidisciplinary teams across creative, UX, design, technology, content, media, account, and production to support strategy from discovery through execution. You’ll contribute to research, workshops, strategic frameworks, briefs, customer journeys, digital roadmaps, and recommendations that help teams make better decisions.\nThe ideal candidate is a curious and analytical strategist who is genuinely interested in how people behave, how digital experiences shape relationships with brands, and how technology, culture, and sport influence consumer expectations. You’re comfortable digging into research and data, developing a point of view, communicating your thinking clearly, and collaborating with teams to turn strategy into meaningful work.\nLocation: Portland, OR (Hybrid): This is a hybrid role based in Portland, Oregon, requiring onsite presence at our client's office 1-2 days per week.\nResponsibilities:\nSupport the development of digital strategies across websites, platforms, products, campaigns, content ecosystems, and other digital experiences for a prominent global athletic brand.\nConduct research into audiences, customer behaviors, market dynamics, competitors, culture, sport, technology, and relevant digital trends.\nSynthesize qualitative and quantitative research into clear insights, implications, and strategic recommendations.\nHelp identify audience needs, business challenges, experience opportunities, and areas for digital improvement.\nDevelop audience profiles, journey maps, experience principles, channel recommendations, and other strategic frameworks as appropriate to the work.\nSupport strategic discovery through stakeholder interviews, workshops, audits, research, and analysis.\nHelp translate business and customer objectives into clear strategic briefs, requirements, and opportunities for creative and digital teams.\nPartner with the Digital Strategy Director to develop strategic recommendations, presentations, roadmaps, and points of view.\nCollaborate with UX, design, creative, technology, content, media, account, and production teams to ensure strategic thinking informs the work throughout development.\nParticipate in creative and experience development, providing strategic perspective and helping teams evaluate ideas against audience needs and business objectives.\nAnalyze digital experiences and customer journeys to identify gaps, opportunities, and recommendations for improvement.\nHelp connect digital strategy to relevant performance data, research, measurement, and business outcomes.\nDevelop clear, compelling presentations and strategic documents that communicate research, insights, recommendations, and strategic direction.\nParticipate in client meetings, workshops, presentations, and working sessions, contributing strategic thinking and recommendations as appropriate.\nBring cultural and consumer perspectives into the work, with particular attention to the ways sport, community, identity, and lifestyle influence audiences and brand relationships. \nMonitor developments in digital platforms, emerging technologies, AI, sport, fashion, culture, consumer behavior, and relevant industries and translate useful developments into strategic opportunities.\nMaintain clear documentation of research, insights, strategic decisions, recommendations, and project requirements.\nHelp establish and improve strategy processes, frameworks, tools, and ways of working across projects.\nShare knowledge, research, and strategic perspectives with other strategists and multidisciplinary team members.\nAbout You\nThe essentials:\n3+ years of experience in digital strategy, brand strategy, marketing strategy, customer experience, UX strategy, or a related discipline.\nDemonstrated experience conducting research and translating findings into meaningful insights and strategic recommendations.\nStrong understanding of digital experiences, customer journeys, audience behavior, and the role of digital channels in supporting brand and business objectives.\nExperience developing strategic briefs, audience insights, journey maps, experience principles, channel recommendations, or similar strategic deliverables.\nStrong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to identify patterns, synthesize information, and develop clear points of view.\nAbility to combine qualitative and quantitative inputs to understand audiences, business challenges, and digital opportunities.\nStrong understanding of digital platforms, content, technology, UX, and creative development and how these disciplines work together.\nExperience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across strategy, creative, UX, design, technology, content, media, and production.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate strategic thinking clearly and concisely.\nExperience developing presentations and communicating insights and recommendations to clients or internal stakeholders.\nStrong presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear and compelling narratives.\nStrong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, research assignments, and competing priorities.\nStrong attention to detail and the ability to manage complex information while maintaining focus on the larger strategic objective.\nAbility to work independently on assigned workstreams while collaborating closely with senior strategists and multidisciplinary teams.\nCuriosity about emerging technologies, AI, digital platforms, cultural trends, and evolving consumer behaviors.\nStrong interest in understanding how people interact with brands, products, services, and digital experiences.\nGenuine interest in sports and an understanding of how sport can intersect with culture, identity, community, and consumer behavior.\nExperience working in an advertising, creative, digital, consulting, or similarly fast-paced environment preferred.\nNot a must, but a plus:\nExperience developing digital strategy for sports, athletic, apparel, footwear, fashion, lifestyle, retail, or other culturally relevant consumer brands.\nGenuine passion for sports and a strong understanding of the role sport plays in culture, identity, community, and consumer behavior.\nExperience working with large-scale global brands or complex digital ecosystems.\nExperience across e-commerce, product launches, seasonal campaigns, or high-traffic consumer digital experiences.\nExperience working across global markets, audiences, and distributed teams.\nExperience connecting digital strategy to broader brand, cultural, social, or community strategies.\nExperience contributing to pitches, proposals, new business development, or account growth.\nExperience applying AI or emerging technologies to digital strategy, research, experience development, or strategic workflows.\nThis role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.\n#LI-HYBRID\nWhat We Offer\nBenefits\nExcellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here!\nGenerous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays\n401k with company contribution\nPaid parental leave\nWork-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being\nCareer growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network \nA globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!\nAuthentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)\nThis role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.\nMonks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.\nSalary Range:\n$85,000—$95,000 USD\nAbout Monks\nMonks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery-taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.\nThis commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. 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